A champion colt that competes at the top of his game for three seasons winning G1 races at two, three and four acquires a legion of fans along the way, so this week we are paying tribute to Anamoe, ahead of his first yearlings being sold next week at Magic Millions.
Darley's based Street Boss, who first served Australian mares in 2009, was already a successful sire when Anamoe first set foot on a racecourse.
But as Anamoe blazed his way across the turf in four seasons of greatness, the fortunes of Street Boss - almost uncannily - seemed to rise in league with his son.
The dual G1 sprint winning Street Boss was following in the hoofsteps of his sire, who had shuttled to Darley NSW for the second year, where he stood alongside his Kentucky Derby winning son Street Sense. Street Boss however, was installed at Northwood Park.
The blueprint for Godolphin’s ambitious Australian expansion very much revolved around their faith in Street Cry and his sons, and it proved to be fully justified.
The relatively short-lived Street Cry who died aged sixteen, is the only imported stallion to have been crowned Australian Champion Sire since the mighty Danehill.
Street Sense had relocated to Japan after siring four Australian G1 winners and at the time of Street Cry’s passing, Street Boss was the only commercial source of his blood available to Aussie breeders.
The powerhouse stallion’s Australian stud career was initially hampered by an injury that saw him miss the 2010 shuttle. Now the big boy needed to step up - and he did.
His son The Quarterback tore up the script in defeating the legendary Chautauqua in the 2016 G1 Newmarket to give Street Boss his first Australian G1 winner.
The Quarterback was one of four Australian stakes winners for Street Boss that season, and his service fee for 2016 was more than doubled to $27,500. This was also the time of Street Cry’s great achievement in being crowned Australian Champion Sire.
Sending Anamato to Street Boss was part of Darley’s campaign to attract the next calibre of mares for their stallion - well a nine x G1 winner got the job done!
But Street Boss was already on the up of his own accord. As Anamoe’s career began to soar, so the stakes winners for his sire began to flow.
Just a fortnight after Anamoe’s first stakes win as a juvenile, the Street Boss son Elite Street stormed to victory in the G1 Winterbottom Stakes in Perth.
Anamoe was a G1 winner too by the end of the season, and Street Boss was on the move - so was his fee. He was relocated to NSW and it would now set you back $55,000 to send a mare to him.
Anamoe won three G1s the following year and Street Boss had six stakes winners for the season. It was decided the big chestnut would make Australia his permanent home, though he had sired five G1 winners from his American crops.
But suddenly every buyer wanted a Street Boss. They were good looking, precocious, sound, sane, honest and extraordinarily tough.
As Anamoe notched up five more G1 wins in 2022/23,, Street Boss broke into the top 10 of the Australian Sires’ table. He has never served huge books of mares, which makes his success all the more meritorious.
The old boy is still going strong, though now that Anamoe has arrived to stand beside him, he can rest on his laurels a bit.
Last season's leading juvenile colt and filly were both by Street Boss.
Street Boss has sired 85 stakes winners to date, 11 of them G1 winners.
His dynasty is locked in, with Anamoe spearheading the charge of sons at stud, supported by G2 VRC Sires Produce/ Run To The Rose hero Traffic Warden ($22,000 at Darley) and Blue Diamond Preview/Prelude winning speedster Hanseatic.
Soon enough they will be joined by Godolphin's beautifully bred G1 Coolmore Stud Stakes victor Tentyris who is a pure scintillating talent. The way he smashed the race record that day was something to behold.
Then there are all the well performed Street Boss fillies/ mares at stud - wouldn't we all love to own one as gifted and brave as Tempted!
Street Boss is just an all round wonderful sire.
